sub dbh_new {
my ($self, $rw) = @_;
my $f = delete $self->{filename};
- if (!-f $f) { # SQLite defaults mode to 0644, we want 0666
+ if (!-s $f) { # SQLite defaults mode to 0644, we want 0666
if ($rw) {
require PublicInbox::Spawn;
+ my ($dir) = ($f =~ m!(.+)/[^/]+\z!);
+ PublicInbox::Spawn::nodatacow_dir($dir);
open my $fh, '+>>', $f or die "failed to open $f: $!";
PublicInbox::Spawn::nodatacow_fd(fileno($fh));
} else {